The Mob was the biggest richest business in America
- until it was destroyed from within by drugs greed & the decline of traditional crime-family values. & by guys like Sal Polisi. Born into one of the New York Mob's feared Five Families Polisi ran an illegal after-hours gambling den The Sinatra Club that was a hangout for up-&-coming mobsters like John Gotti & the three wiseguys immortalised in Goodfellas: Henry Hill Jimmy Burke & Tommy De Simone. Yet for Polisi the glory days spent robbing banks & pulling heists were fleeting. When he was busted & already sickened by the bloodbath that had engulfed the Mob as it teetered towards extinction he flipped & became one of a breed he had loathed all his life: a rat. In this riveting first-person chronicle of his brazen crimes wild sexual escapades & personal tragedies Polisi tells his story of life inside the New York Mob. With shocking candour he draws on a hard-won knowledge of Mob history to paint a revelatory picture of the inner workings of the Mafia & its larger-than-life characters.